Cont: The Trump Presidency Part III

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Captain_Swoop said:
Donald Trump's government has issued a ruling that allows employers to opt out of providing free birth control to millions of Americans.
The rule allows employers and insurers to decline to provide birth control if doing so violates their "religious beliefs" or "moral convictions".

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the top Republican in Congress, praised the decision as "a landmark day for religious liberty".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41528526
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I kinda hope that establishing such an exception for "religious beliefs" or "moral convictions" gets taken down the path of unintended consequences.

The fundies need to learn that their peculiar, repressed flavor of Christianity does not comprise the only "religious beliefs" or "moral convictions" in the country.
 
quadraginta said:
I kinda hope that establishing such an exception for "religious beliefs" or "moral convictions" gets taken down the path of unintended consequences.

The fundies need to learn that their peculiar, repressed flavor of Christianity does not comprise the only "religious beliefs" or "moral convictions" in the country.
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Next up: Scientologist run organizations demanding health care plans that don't offer any psychiatric care. Given their teaching about psychiatrists I'd say that s as religiously defensible as refusing to cover birth control pills.

How many left-wing run outfits can use this to refuse to cover vaccinations?

It'll be interesting when some Christian Scientists refuse to offer ANY health coverage at all.
 
Jim_MDP said:
Has The Donald's hair gone white, or did he stop showering in Cheetos dust?
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In late December he briefly tried on another look. It was blondish-silver (ash blond?) and the style was different. It made him better-looking, IMO, but he might have thought it made him look old.
 
Stacko said:
The interesting part is how the emails to Milo show central anti-feminism and misogyny are to the alt-right's appeal. It's like their gateway drug to racism.
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That's because his part started in Gamergate, the "ethics in games journalism" crowd that actually spent an amazing amount of time harassing women online. I'd bet some of those Charlottesville white supremacists came out of that movement, too.
 
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Mumbles said:
That's because his part started in Gamergate, the "ethics in games journalism" crowd that actually spent an amazing amount of time harassing women online. I'd bet some of those Charlottesville white supremacists came out of that movement, too.
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The right does not have a monopoly on harassing women. I give you Harvey Weinstein as an example.......
 
dudalb said:
The right does not have a monopoly on harassing women. I give you Harvey Weinstein as an example.......
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Never said they did - and I didn't say all of Gamergate was on the right, either. Frankly, I suspect a lot of them didn't care much about politics. But they started as a group of angry gamers that harassed women like Zoe Quinn and Anita Saarkesian, likely for encroaching on "their" games.

Actually, Milo thought gaming was idiotic right up until this group started up, at which point he suddenly loved video games.
 
dudalb said:
Depends on what the bill authorizing the wall says.
With all the crap Trump has one, making a fuss over this is pretty silly.
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I'm not making a fuss over that, per se. Governments have purchasing laws they have to at least pretend to follow. It's Trump's normalization of his "emperor" status that bothers me. A lot of people wouldn't even question the idea that it's Trump's decision to make. Some big infrastructure project like that? It's the Deep State that executes those plans, not the CEO, because the projects take longer than any one president's tenure. There is supposed to be a fail-safe against having one person essentially dictate policy. The wall is not an executive order; it's a contract.

Right now they're just on prototypes and if the real wall as as butt-ugly as the one the BBC ran a picture of, the wall may lose some support. It's hideous, and it's not a solution at all, or even part of a solution. It's as if the designers made it as ugly as possible in order to drain support. Building a wall means a lot of other infrastructure projects aren't going to happen.
 
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Minoosh said:
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Right now they're just on prototypes and if the real wall as as butt-ugly as the one the BBC ran a picture of, the wall may lose some support. It's hideous, and it's not a solution at all, or even part of a solution. It's as if the designers made it as ugly as possible in order to drain support. Building a wall means a lot of other infrastructure projects aren't going to happen.
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What tickled me when I saw that photo is that it is nothing but bog-standard precast panels. I could have taken that same photo at any of thousands of cheap, spec-built warehouse space put up by opportunistic developers everywhere.

There's a lot more that goes into preparing for those than just standing them up in a parking lot.
 
chrispy said:
My family keeps asking if I ever plan to move back to the states. ''I'm cool here, thanks'' is my usual response.
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To be fair, that avatar photo suggests some interesting issues. Maybe your family wants to get you help. Just a thought, no offense intended.
 
phiwum said:
To be fair, that avatar photo suggests some interesting issues. Maybe your family wants to get you help. Just a thought, no offense intended.
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Hahahahaha. That is my favorite random internet photo ever. Plus, as a cat person, I find it disgustingly hilarious. :D
 
Civet said:
That woman is incredible. She's so method she makes Daniel Day Lewis look like he's phoning it in.
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She's had lots of practice pretending that her dad's jokes are funny and her brother is a well adjusted person.
 
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